On this week's episode of Let's Weekend: Monks had a lot of time on their hands in the middle-ages. Thanksgiving dinner flavored Pringles. Plus a Navy pilot gets creative with his vapor-trails. That and a lot more, up next!

11/17/2017 Show Notes

• Intro
• What Are We Up To?
  • F: Oathbringer.
  • P: Well, at least sleep is awesome.
  • T: FFXIV, Black Adder, ST:Discovery
  • B: Horizon Zero Dawn, prog rock, arguing with Stalin apologists.
  • C: DB Super, Super Mario Odyssey, Nier Automata, Warframe
• Brandon’s Random Factoid
• Assholes of the Week: Keystone XL shits itself even sooner than imagined
  • House GOP Tax Bill succeeds, Senate version will repeal ACA mandate
• Hero of the Week: Twitter clarifies its TOS, unverifies alt-right poster children
• Jeff Sessions considering appointing special counsel to investigate HRC conspiracies
• House Rep. Louie Gohmert revealed one of the worst charts ever about Uranium One
  • Sean Hannity came up with his own HRC conspiracy chart
• GQ named Colin Kaepernick “Citizen of the Year” for 2017
• Cards Against Humanity’s new holiday promotion begins with border land purchase
• P: I wanted to write a snippy headline for this but nothing beats the actual one.
• Bad news for the DBZ fandom
  • Chris Ayres (US Freeza) has late-stage COPD
  • Hiromi Tsuru (JP Bulma) found dead in her car aside the Shuto expressway
    • Or Meryl Strife for our Trigun fans.
• Houston Rockets owner declares interest in bringing NHL to town
  • What makes a good bid
    • A definitive ownership group
    • A good-to-go NHL-ready arena
    • (At the moment) Central Division location
  • Patrick's expansion power rankings
    • 1: Houston (3/3)
    • 2: Seattle (0/3, but the league wants it)
    • 3: Kansas City (2/3)
    • 4: Quebec City (2/3, look to relocation)
    • 5: Hamilton/Toronto (1.5/3)
      • Only half credit for Jim Balsillie as owner. Here’s why that is...
• UK real estate co. claims millennials just have to stop ordering out to afford a house
• While discussing recent church shooting, two people are accidentally shot at church
  • B: “It’s like rayaiiiiinnn…”
• Undercover cops posing as drug dealers fight undercover cops posing as drug buyers
• EU scientists capture ancient species of shark that has been around for 80m years
• FDA approves first digital pill that can let your doctor know you’ve taken it.
• Pringles made Thanksgiving dinner-flavored chips
• Naval jet draws a junk in the Washington skies
• Get Out will compete as a comedy/musical at the Golden Globes
• The first trailer for movie adaptation of Rampage
• Spider-Man spin-off movie on “Morbius the Living Vampire” in the works
• It writer tapped for “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” movie adaptation
• Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series confirmed as prequel to Fellowship
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